{"id":112,"date":"2010-09-09T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/mindfulnessmatters\/2010\/09\/teachers-and-talks-pema-chodron.html"},"modified":"2010-09-09T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T07:30:04","slug":"teachers-and-talks-pema-chodron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/mindfulnessmatters\/2010\/09\/teachers-and-talks-pema-chodron.html","title":{"rendered":"Teachers and Talks: Pema Chodron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ani Pema Ch\u00c3\u00b6dr\u00c3\u00b6n is an American Buddhist nun and author whose teachings and writings on meditation have helped make Buddhism accessible to a broad Western audience. She currently directs the Gampo Abbey in Nova Scotia, Canada, the first Tibetan monastery in North America for Western monastics and lay practitioners.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Pema Chodron is the author of many fine books, including Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times, <\/a>When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advise for Difficult Times<\/a>, and Uncomfortable With Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Fearlessness and Compassion<\/i><\/a>, the book that inspired the title of my book, Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness<\/a>.<\/i> <\/div>\n
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Watch her interview with Bill Moyers on his series Faith and Reason:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/moyers\/faithandreason\/portraits_chodron.htm<\/p>\n

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